461 quotes found
“I might not be ready to pour out my feelings to the world, but Id had enough of trying to ignore them.”
“Women are always true, even in the midst of their greatest falsities, because they are always influenced by some natural feeling.”
“Man is a play station whereas a woman will always remain at an emotion station.”
“It's an odd thing- the softer and more easily hurt a woman is the better she can screw herself up to do what has to be done.”
“Anyhow, with their extraordinary gift for, and experience in, affairs of the heart from the double point of view, both of the man and of the woman it is not difficult to see that these people have ...”
“The ordinary procedure of the nineteenth century is that when a powerful and noble personage encounters a man of feeling, he kills, exiles, imprisons or so humiliates him that the other, like a foo...”
“The unemotional life is not worth living.”
“To distort our faces with joy, or wail and weep with sorrow, or collapse in agony, or wallow in sentimentality wasnt an inviolable human trait but something we can lose simply by leading dull and ...”
“I write so the endangered thoughts roaming naked and vulnerable through the misty jungles of my mind aren't slain by the guns of practical living.”
“He tasted passion. He tasted emotion. He tasted a world hed never imagined, one he could never enter. It was right there in front of him, suddenly open to him. Unexpected. Exciting. Scary.”
“He was ruled by the tyranny of instinct, by passion and the instant legislation of a simple heart.”
“Your own guilt is your own fault.”
“Heart language is logic set on fire.”
“Noble self-restraint must have something to restrain.”
“There is an incessant influx of novelty into the world, and yet we tolerate incredible dulness. I need only suggest what kind of sermons are still listened to in the most enlightened countries. The...”
“Not that believing such things has anything to do with whether they are true. You see that, don't you?”
“Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.”
“When you fake emotion for a living, when you make your money providing fantasies for other people, tuning into their worlds and indulging them, you dont invite someone into your world very easily.”
“Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it.”
“The emotion of sex brings into being a state of mind.”
